Weather or not

As I write this, it’s a little before 6 p.m. on Wednesday and the forecasters are saying a big storm is on the way. I’m glad it hasn’t hit yet because it’s wedding anniversary day in the Davidson household and my husband has made dinner reservations.
I’ve positioned the shovel next to the side door so that it’ll be handy tomorrow to dig a path to the end of the driveway to fetch the morning papers. And to clear the way for when I’ll need to back the car out of the garage in order to get to the Museum of Contemporary Art’s fund-raising dinner, Dinner with David.
If the storm’s a biggie, I’ll worry about friends who have no choice but to be on the road. Like Steve, who is working his way back to Golden following a business trip to Philadelphia. Or Jon, who has met a woman he thinks could be “the one” and is on his way to Denver from the South. And Freda, of Pueblo, who has the job interview she has waited seemingly forever for at 2 o’clock in Denver.
Drive carefully; and remember, it’s always the other guy that you need to watch out for.

Study after study has shown that when it comes to charitable fundraisers, Denver has more per capita than any comparably sized city in the nation. Joanne Davidson has been covering them for The Denver Post since 1985, coming here from her native California where she'd spent the previous seven years as San Francisco bureau chief for U.S. News & World Report magazine.